maleficent
- a harmful or evil in intent or effect
- Peter's mood swings were teeth rattling, shifting in microseconds from boyish to brutal, caring to maleficent, while we hang on for a grim yet giddy ride.
- Rickman, 63, achieved his first and lasting prominence on stage as the maleficent Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and on screen as the purring baddie Hans Gruber in the first .
- Nat Bentley is a television writer-producer in Hollywood, but his most inspired production is his ebulliently maleficent self.